The best homemade chewy chocolate chip cookies! Basic ingredients, 1 bowl, no softened butter, no chilling, just 25 minutes between you and cookie perfection!
Let's talk cookies, or more specifically, the BEST chewy chocolate chip cookies ever.
I am a firm believer that everyone needs a solid chocolate chip cookie recipe that you know by heart and make on a semi (or very) regular basis, and I'm happy to report that THESE are those cookies!
You guys know by now how much I love cookies - we've made homemade versions of so many favourites like oreos stuffed with different flavoured icing, the nostalgic 100's & 1000's biscuits of our 90's childhoods, delicious peppermint flavoured mint slices and even jam filled Shrewsbury biscuits. Well, as much as I love making them, the cookies that are on almost a weekly baking schedule in our house are these ones.
The best thing about these cookies is that they are so super easy to make. 100% kid or non-baker friendly. No softened butter, no chilling the cookie dough, no mixer, just throw everything together in a mixing bowl, scoop out 12 massive cookies or 24 smaller ones and bake for as long as you like depending on exactly how you like your cookies.
Play around with it! For bigger cookies, at 10 minutes the cookies will still be super soft. At 12 minutes they are perfect (in my opinion!) - just starting to go crunchy on the outside but still soft & chewy on the inside. 14 minutes and they are harder, crunchier cookies. It's your call. Try them all and let me know which you prefer!
I used to make 12 giant cookies with this recipe back when it was only me and Josh enjoying them but now that we have small kids, I prefer to make them smaller so that there are more to go around and also, the smaller sized ones fit better in their lunchboxes! 8-10 minutes is all they take to bake at this size.
You can also easily double the recipe if you need to make cookies for a crowd.
How to freeze cookie dough
This cookie dough freezes extremely well - I scoop dough balls out onto a tray and pop the tray straight into the oven to freeze. Once the dough balls have frozen, I transfer them to an airtight container or snaplock bag in the freezer and keep them in there until I'm ready to bake them.
To bake frozen cookie dough balls, I place the frozen dough balls on the oven tray and let them thaw slightly while the oven is heating. Then bake as per instructions, just give them an extra couple of minutes.
Frozen cookie dough makes an excellent snack straight out of the freezer or chopped up and mixed through vanilla ice cream. And the jumbo sized cookies are perfect in ice-cream sandwich form come summer!
The Best Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies (ever)
Ingredients
- 115 grams butter melted
- ½ cup (105g) white sugar
- ½ cup (100g) brown sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 ½ cups (210g) flour
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ⅛ teaspoon salt
- ½ cup chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 180°C/350°F and prepare a baking tray with baking paper or a Silpat liner. Set aside.
- Melt the butter in a large pyrex jug in the microwave or in a large pot on the stove.
- Add the sugars to the melted butter and whisk together. Add the egg and vanilla and whisk again.
- Add the flour, baking soda, salt and chocolate chips and mix together well until all ingredients are incorporated.
- Spoon 12 even sized scoops onto the prepared baking tray - I like to use a small ice-cream scoop to make sure they are all the same size.
- Bake for 10-12 minutes for soft cookies or 12-14 minutes for crunchier cookies.
- Allow to cool on the tray for 10 minutes and then transfer to a cooling rack.
- Store in an airtight container for 1 week.
Rose B says
Such an easy and basic recipe, but they magically come out somewhere between a subway cookie and a cookie time. 11/10
Chelsea Domaschenz says
Huge hit in this family!
Beautiful everytime. I do large bulk batches and it never fails. I'm going to attempt to freeze them like I do with most baking - have you had any luck in this? Cheers
Laura says
Hi Chelsea! I have actually never frozen the cookies baked but I'm sure they would be great! I usually double the batch and freeze half as dough balls, ready to bake and they work so well!
Nan and Kharma 🌼 says
My granddaughter who has autism made these bikkies and we are so proud of her! 💜 she was proud of herself also for being able to follow the recipe without too much help, there weren't too many steps for her, and cookies are her favourite thing 👌🏽she said "thanks they are yum as!"
Laura says
This is so lovely to read, well done to your granddaughter!!
Elly Toft says
I make this recipe with GF Flour & they are amazing -also add ½ cup of raisins!
Best recipe ever & so easy
Evie says
Love love the chewy texture of the cookies
isla says
amazing, turned out delicious.
I cooked the cookies for 12 minutes and they came out warm and chewy, 5 stars!!!
Emma Wilson says
my family loves this recipe we love it and my daughter makes it better then me.
Jess says
Love these cookies so much! My go to now and I think I've *almost* memorised the recipe haha. If I were to make a double batch and freeze some would you recommend freezing the dough as a slab or shape into cookies?
Laura says
This is so great to hear! I scoop the dough into balls and freeze them like that. Then I pop them on a baking tray and let them thaw slightly while I heat the oven and bake them for just a couple of minutes longer than I usually would. They are so good like this!
Natalie says
This is my go to recipe now, after trialling lots of cookie recipes. I burn my butter when melting so it makes that cookie a bit more delicious! Always have to make double batches in my household 😆 don't last long that's for sure!
Jessica says
AMAZING!!! Made these with coconut oil instead of butter and worked a treat for dairy free buiscuts.
toni says
So so easy. 180 bake in my overnight i’d suggest at least 14min
Katy W says
Beautiful biscuits- come out perfectly every time and I’ve made them a lot!
Emily says
The only biscuits I've been making for years! They're just AMAZING and morish! So easy to whip up and the kids just love them. They really are the perfect biscuit!
Taj says
Simple and quick to make, a family favourite. Also a hit with my work colleagues. Best chocolate chip cookies. I've made them so many times.
Sheree says
These are the best chocolate chip cookies! Friends and family say that they’re the best cookie they’ve ever tasted! So easy to make
Evey says
These are some of the best bikkies I've ever made. So yummy
Catherine says
I made these and they didn't last long in our house. If you like cookie time cookies now you can make your own.
Super yum cookies 🙂
Emily Bristol says
These really are incredible 😍
Etta says
I baked these for my family (I'm 11) And my whole family sadi these where the best cookies they have ever had!! I agree very yummy and easy to make as a child!
Laura says
Well done Etta, that is fantastic to hear!! I am so pleased you all enjoyed them!
Rochelle says
Perfect batch size and super yummy!
Madelein Smit says
Are the calories per cookie?
Laura says
Yes they are
Aliyah says
I love them are you from NZ